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Was receiving the following errors in the mail.log after upgrade from Ubuntu 8.04 LTS to Ubuntu 10.4 LTS:

Aug 19 12:32:55 mail postfix/pipe[2208]: 88FD22BC84: to=<user@domain>, relay=maildrop, delay=1180, delays=1180/0.02/0/0.04, dsn=4.3.0, status=deferred (temporary failure. Command output: ERR: authdaemon: s_connect() failed: Permission denied /usr/local/maildrop/bin/maildrop.bin: Temporary authentication failure. )

I had previously installed maildrop from source, but, decided to change it [...]

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Was trying to add a database user via the control panel and received the above error message.
Fix by running:
mysql_upgrade -uroot -ppassword
Or add the table servers in database mysql:
CREATE TABLE `servers` (
`Server_name` char(64) NOT NULL,
`Host` char(64) NOT NULL,
`Db` char(64) NOT NULL,
`Username` char(64) NOT NULL,
`Password` char(64) NOT NULL,
`Port` int(4) DEFAULT NULL,
`Socket` char(64) DEFAULT NULL,
`Wrapper` char(64) NOT NULL,
`Owner` [...]

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Needed to add 64 IPs to a CentOS 5.4 system and it was going to be a pain adding individual files in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:X
There is a nice way to alias a range of IPs to your interface automatically when the network comes up.

Configure your eth0 interface as normal
Create a new file: /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0-range0
In the ifcfg-eth0-range0 file you [...]

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Installed Gnokii from the standard Ubuntu lucid repositories, however, it installed Gnokii 0.6.28.  This was fine, but, upon testing came across an issue.
Notes: Phone Nokia 7250, Cable CA-42
Running in debug mode:
# gnokii –sendsms +MOBILE_NUMBER
….
debugging information
…
Please enter SMS text. End your input with <cr><control-D>:
would work fine to this stage.  On entering a message it would some [...]

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A fresh Acronis EchoServer install on CentOS 5.4 was taking a long time to execute the “trueimagecmd –list” command and was throwing lots of meesages in the dmesg/log files such as:
session_init: OK. kdev=9:0, bs=1024.
session_init: OK. kdev=9:1, bs=4096.
end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
end_request: [...]

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